Tag Archives: Poverty

If you look up Wikipedia for general information on palm oil, it explains that it is an edible vegetable oil derived from the reddish pulp of the fruit of the oil palms, primarily the African oil palm. Along with coconut … Continue reading →

In my blog article last March I gave an update on my further research into Coltan (Columbite Tantalite), a ‘conflict mineral’ whose importance in modern technological devices has fueled a bloody civil war that to date has resulted in around … Continue reading →

Tony Fedele has been a long time friend of our Passionist Community in Templestowe, Melbourne. His son, David Fedele, has become an independent documentary filmmaker, who recently traveled to city of Lae in Papua New Guinea, to witness first hand … Continue reading →

I have just returned from another visit to Vietnam where we took a group of people associated with us for an immersion experience working with the crucified of our world. Our visit involved work in 4 separate places of ministry: … Continue reading →

A Passionist International workshop seminal on Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation was held at our mother house in Rome from the 13th to the 19th of April this year. Fr. Kevin Dance CP of our Australian Province, and a … Continue reading →

Having a strong concern for issues of Justice, it was disconcerting for me to read the recent publication by the respected Catholic News Agency relating to the KGB involvement in Liberation Theology. The claims come from an interview with Ion … Continue reading →

We have lived during a period where the dominant world economic philosophy has been the neoliberal free market economic system. For the last 40 years this system has been sold to the public as a system that will ultimately bring … Continue reading →